Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oncoming missile. Explanation of the failure: an inverter did not feed current into the guidance system, and so the bird flew aimlessly. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the University of Colorado's high-altitude observatory, lamented that the failure "probably has set our kind of scientific research back ten years," because the misfire cost scientists a priceless opportunity to study an unusually powerful and unexpected solar flare on the day of the scheduled launching...
...rabbi at the age of 23 and today stands as spiritual leader of U.S. Reform Judaism at Hebrew Union, Glueck spends more time as archaeologist than as minister, has roamed the Holy Land for 30 years. During World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into the wasteland...
Planned to house dogs used in research, the one-story structure is the temporary command post from which Dr. Heller leads the major part of the U.S. fight against one of mankind's oldest and deadliest enemies-cancer. T19 is headquarters of the National Cancer Institute, and John R. Heller, 54, is the National Cancer Institute's director...
Across Dr. Heller's desk, from his far-flung research fields, flow curious and varied intelligence items-students gathering puffball mushrooms, desert rats that have learned to smoke, a drug made from a chemical relative of DDT, a plastic "iron lung'' for mice. To him, they all fit tiny corners of the vast jigsaw that must be filled in before cancer can be conquered. Meanwhile, his reports on the enemy's inroads are grim...
...educational, governmental, and industrial settings of creativity were discussed by a panel moderated by Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics; Dr. H. B. G. Casimir, director of Philips Research Laboratories, the Netherlands; Dr. Emanuel R. Piore, director of Research, International Business Machines Corporation; and James A. Shannon, director, National Institute of Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare...